Date: Thursday, April 2, 2026

Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EDT) | 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM (PDT) | 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM (IST) | 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM (CEST)

Join us on this session, where we will talk about what’s new and exciting stuff we have packed in our 8.2.1 release and how we are working hard to make data protection easy for you. We will also have a brief demo about some things we are excited about based on what we have heard from IBM Storage Protect community.

• VMware 9.0 support and what it unlocks for virtualized workloads
• Limited availability of HSM recall, including early learnings and use cases
• Object Lock support for Azure and GCP, expanding immutability options across clouds

Speakers:

Girish Dadge, Senior Product Manager - IBM Storage Protect
Pradeep Sharma, Senior Developer - IBM Storage Protect
Siddalingaswamy V S, Nupur Gupta, Abhijeet Takale, Tanish Jadhav - Developers - IBM Storage Protect